Associate Professor Partha Gangopadhyay

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Biography

Partha works chiefly in the area of economic theory and its application in the real world. He studied economics as a major and mathematics and politics as minors gaining a First class Honours degree in economics from the Presidency College, Calcutta and an MA in economics from JNU, New Delhi, India. After a brief stint at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi Partha came to Australia for doctoral studies in mid 1989 and obtained a PhD in economics from the University of Sydney in 1994. He worked as an associate lecturer at University of Sydney during 1990-1994 and took up a lectureship at Griffith University in 1995 before migrating to UWS as a lecturer in 1996. Since July 1996 Partha has published about 60 refereed publications including 5 research books. His work was published in “A* and A journals” of the ERA Journal List of the Australian Research Council including Urban Studies (A*), Journal of Asian Studies (A*), Theory and Decision (A), Economic Modelling (A) etc. He was appointed as a full and chair professor at the European University of Viadrina, Frankfurt (O), Germany in 2000. He also held visiting professorships at leading North American universities.

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

PRIMARY RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Applied Game Theory & Local Public Goods
• Public Policies, Globalisation & Regional Economics
• Economics of Conflict, Development and Peace E
• Economic & Financial Dynamics
  

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Grants / Current Projects

ORGANIZATIONAL AND LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIIES

Executive Director, “International Centre for Conflict Prevention and Management” (Affiliated to CSAS, University of Sydney), Key Board Members are Ken Arrow, Amartya Sen, Daniel McFadden (all Nobel-Laureates in Economics). Web Page: http://www.somapps.binghamton.edu/iccpm/index.html.

Guest Editor, Special issue entitled “Frontiers of Economics Science”, American Journal of Applied Sciences, Science Publications, New York, December 2005. Articles by leading experts of our globe made contributions, e.g., Murray Kemp, Carl Chiarella, Peter Flaschel and Anjan Mukherji. See http://scipub.org/scipub/spiny/si_ajas3.htm.

Joint Chair, “Symposium on Conflict Management”, 24 July 2008, College of Business and Law, University of Western Sydney, Invited Speakers were Michael Intriligator (UCLA), Manas Chatterji (SUNY, Binghamton), Jurgen Brauer (Augusta State University and Acting Research Director, One Earth Future Foundation, University Colorado).
See http://pubapps.uws.edu.au/events_diary/event.php?id=1100.

Co-Chair, “Australasian Conference on Security, Peace Economics, and Peace Science”, August 17-18 2007, University Western Sydney (in cooperation with State University of New York, Binghamton; Economics for Peace and Security; Peace Science Society, International; South Asia Studies Group of University Sydney; International Centre for Conflict Prevention & Management).

Guest Editor, Special issue entitled “Advances in Economic Theory in Honour of Murray C. Kemp”, International Journal of Economic Research, June 2007.

Joint Chair, “International Conference on Globalization”- jointly sponsored by the State University of New York, Binghamton and UWSM - held in July 1999 at UWSM, Sydney. Invited speakers included Jeffrey Sachs and Murray Kemp.

Joint Chair, “International Conference on Peace Science and Emerging Capital Markets” held at Krakow University, Poland (18-20 October 2002).

Joint-Coordinator, “Workshop in Honour of Professor Murray C. Kemp”– held in July 1996 at Brisbane.

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Awards and Recognition

• PhD in Economics, University of Sydney, Australia, 1989-1994. Thesis Title: “Dynamics of Subjective Forecasts in a Stylized Economy”. PhD Advisory Committee: Murray C. Kemp, Yanis Varoufakis (Principal Supervisor), Stephen Zees, Mono Chatterji
  
• M.A. in Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, 1984-1986.
  
• B.Sc. (Honours) in Economics (1st Class), Presidency College, 1980-1983. With Mathematics and Politics, Presidency College, University of Calcutta, India, (with University Rank)
  

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Publications

Books:
1. Gangopadhyay, P, Peace Science: Theory, Methods and Cases, (Co-author with Manas Chatterji), Elsevier, Forthcoming, 2009.
2. Gangopadhyay, P, Economics of Rivalry and Conflicts, World Scientific and Imperial College London, Forthcoming 2009.
3. Gangopadhyay, P, Economic Globalisation in Asia, (Co-editor with M. Chatterji), Ashgate, London, 17 January 2005, pp. 1-280. Foreword by Craig McHugh, World Bank.
4. Gangopadhyay, P, Economics of Globalisation, (Co-editor with M. Chatterji), Ashgate, 30 December 2005, pp. 1-300. Preface by Ken Arrow (Nobel-Laureate) and Foreword by Jeffrey Sachs.

Journal Articles (since 2005):
1. Gangopadhyay, P, ‘Politics of Defence Spending and Endogenous Inequality’ (with Nasser El Kanj), Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, the Berkeley Electronic Press, Forthcoming 2009
2. Gangopadhyay, P, ‘Economics of Intolerances and Conflicts’, the Economics of Peace and Security Journal, Forthcoming June 2009 (invited).
3. Gangopadhyay, P, ‘Flexible Reservation Prices and Price Inflexibility’ (with Renu Gangopadhyay), Economic Modelling, Elsevier, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 499-511, March 2008.
4. Gangopadhyay, P, ‘Competitive Tax Evasion and Transfer Prices’, International Game Theory Review, World Scientific, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 347-357, June 2007..
5. Gangopadhyay, P, ‘Modelling Equilibrium Regional Integration by Endogenising Marginal Cost in the Cournot Framework’, Regional and Urban Development Studies, Blackwell, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 66-77, March 2007.
6. Gangopadhyay, P, ‘Irrationality, Non-equilibrium Conflict and Complex Dynamics’, Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, the Berkeley Electronic Press, Vol. 13 , Issue 2, Research Article 3, pp. 1-13, 2007. (One of the Most Popular Articles of the Journal in 2007-2008).
7. Gangopadhyay, P, ‘Strategic Implications of Food Speculation in Developing Nations: A Game-Theoretic Approach’ (with Kunal Sen), International Journal of Economic Research, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 251-264, June 2007.
8. Gangopadhyay, P, ‘Chaotic Price Discrimination and Non-Linear Dynamics’, American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 441-449, Science Publication, New York, January 2005.
9. Gangopadhyay, P, ‘Imperfectly-rational Agents, Volatility of Reserves and Customer Markets’ (with Renu Gangopadhyay), American Journal of Applied Sciences, Special Issue, pp. 38-43, December 2005.
10. Gangopadhyay, P, ‘Campaign Contributions in a Duopoly’, Middle East Business and Economic Review, Vol. 17, pp. 61-67, December 2005.
11. Gangopadhyay, P, ‘A Note on Asset Price Dynamics and Complexities’, Global Review of Business and Economic Research, Vol. I, No. 2, pp. 149-153, December 2005.
12. Gangopadhyay, P, ‘The Optimal Access Price in a Vertically Related Industry’, Economic Policy and Analysis, Vol. 39, pp. 91-102, Economic Society of Australia (Queensland inc.), March-September 2005.
13. Gangopadhyay, P, ‘Perils of a Simplistic Classification of Universities: A Preliminary Case Study of Economics Departments’ (with Renu Gangopadhyay), Journal of Social Sciences, Science Publications, New York, 1(2), pp.114-117, 2005.
14. Gangopadhyay, P, ‘Cooperatives versus Competition Policy: The Role of Ethics in Australia’, G. Journal of Management, pp. 152-158, July-December 2005.

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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIIES
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• Founding Chief Editor, International Journal of Conflict, Economic Development Peace Science, World Scientific and Imperial College, London Press (2009-)
• Keynote Address to the 39th Annual Conference of the Regional Science Association, Indian Chapter, N. B. University, Darjeeling, 26 January 2007, “Endogenously-driven dynamics of rural-urban migration”
• Regional Editor, Journal of Social Sciences, Science Publications, New York, USA (2005-)
• Associate Editor, American Journal of Applied Sciences, Science Publications, New York, (2005-)
• Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Economic Research, Serial Publications, New Delhi (2005-)
• Member, Editorial Board, Journal of International Business Research, Allied Academies, USA (2005-)
• Member, Editorial Board, International Gambling Studies Journal, Routledge Publication, (2001-2003)
• External Reviewer and Professional Assessor, Research Grant Council of Hong Kong (2005-)
• Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Social and Economic Policy, Serials Publication, (2006-)
• ‘Nominated Expert of International Standing’, The Australian Research Council College of Experts, (2005-)
• Founder of ‘Walter Isard Distinguished Lecture Series in Peace Science’ in 2007 in Australia, First Invited Speaker: Manas Chatterji, SUNY (Binghamton), Second Invited Speaker: Michael Intriligator, UCLA.
• Co-founder of the annual ‘Australasian Peace Science Conference’, 2007-
  

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